The Social History Of Byzantium John Haldon by John Haldon 9781405132404, 9781444305906, 140513240X, 1444305905 instant download after payment.

With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society.

• Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire
  
• Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society
  
• Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms

Content:
Chapter 1 Towards a Social History of Byzantium (pages 1–30): John Haldon
Chapter 2 Men, Women, Eunuchs: Gender, Sex, and Power (pages 31–50): Liz James
Chapter 3 Family Structure and the Transmission of Property (pages 51–75): Angeliki E. Laiou
Chapter 4 The Social Function of the Law (pages 76–91): Bernard Stolte
Chapter 5 Social Relations and the Land: The Early Period (pages 92–111): Peter Sarris
Chapter 6 Land and Power in the Middle and Later Period (pages 112–142): Peter Frankopan
Chapter 7 The Producing Population (pages 143–167): Michel Kaplan
Chapter 8 Social Elites, Wealth, and Power (pages 168–211): John Haldon
Chapter 9 Court Society and Aristocracy (pages 212–232): Paul Magdalino
Chapter 10 Church and Society: Iconoclasm and After (pages 233–256): Michael Angold
Chapter 11 A Monastic World (pages 257–278): Alice?Mary Talbot